The 3rd International Symposium on Information Technology 2008 (ITSim2008)
KL, Malaysia - This event aims to provide an excellent opportunity to share and exchange technologies and applications in the information technology and communication fields for professionals, engineers, academics and industrial people worldwide.
Symposium Co-Chairs
Halimah Badioze Zaman, National University of Malaysia.
Tengku Mohd. Tengku Sembok, National Defence University of Malaysia.
Keith van Rijsbergen, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
Peter Bruza, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Timothy Shih, Tamkang University, Taiwan.
Lotfi Zadeh, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Mohd Nasir Taib, Chairman, IEEE Malaysia Section.
Introduction
The 3rd International Symposium on Information Technology 2008 (ITSim2008) aims to provide an excellent opportunity to share and exchange technologies and applications in the information technology and communication fields for professionals, engineers, academics and industrial people worldwide.
The symposium will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, from 26th to 29th of August 2008, hosted by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and co-sponsored by IEEE Malaysia Section. The theme is “Cognitive Informatics: Bridging Natural and Artificial Knowledge”.
The objectives of the symposium are as follows:
A continuation of the symposium held in 2003 which was hosted by UKM.
To promote discussion and exchange of ideas and knowledge among researchers from various countries in the field of Information Technology.
To facilitate the formation of networking among academicians and industries and also between academic institutions local and international.
To gather and discuss working papers on Cognitive Informatics and Engineering.
To generate and diffuse new theories, applications and technologies in Cognitive Informatics and Engineering.
To serve as a platform for collaboration among other institutions of higher learning.
Topics
ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY
› › Electronics
› › Distributed control system
› › Signal processing
› › Data and communications protocol
› › Biometrics and security
INFORMATICS
› › Nature of software
› › Bioinformatics
› › Knowledge management
› › Knowledge representation
› › Artificial intelligence
› › Data mining
› › Fuzzy logic
› › Cryptography & Compression
› › Machine learning
› › Neural networks
› › Pattern recognition
› › Agent technologies
› › Information storage and retrieval
› › Networking
› › Computer security
› › Grid and peer to peer computing
› › Scientific computing
SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT & APPLICATION
› › Software engineering
› › Multimedia
› › Virtual reality
› › e-learning systems
› › Industrial application systems
› › Web-based information systems
› › Knowledge-based applications
› › Expert systems
› › Simulation and visualisation
› › Intelligent systems
› › Adaptive systems
› › Voice recognition systems
› › Haptic/smell systems
› › Knowledge engineering
› › Medical informatics
› › Evaluation of systems
› › Electronic records management
› › Evaluation Methodology
› › Technology Impact Assessment
COGNITIVE SCIENCE, NATURAL & ARTIFICIAL KNOWLEDGE
› › Natural intelligence
› › Natural knowledge
› › Artificial knowledge
› › Pattern recognition
› › Cerebral computing
› › Personalised knowledge
› › Mobile computing
› › Genetic computing
› › Autonimic computing
› › Expressive mathematics
› › Human-Computer Interface
› › Neural computation
› › Comparative programming
› › Neural informatics
› › Quantum processing
› › Cognitive Linguistics
KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY
› › Digital Divide
› › Knowlegde society indicators
› › e-community
For further information, please contact symposium secretariat at:
Secretariat ITSim08
Faculty of Information Science and Technology
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
43600 UKM Bangi
Malaysia
Tel: +603-89216785 / +603-89216176
Fax: +603-89256732
